Our home is more than just a place to rest; to us, a home is a reflection of the homeowners’ personalities, with each and every element serving a purpose and carrying its own meaning.
Home interiors, furniture placement, and little decorations placed around the house can evoke a variety of emotions. They also have their own personality and vibe depending on how they are styled.
Floorings are one of the largest components of our homes, and it is also the first thing visitors notice when they enter. The type of flooring you use, its colour, and how it is laid will all have an impact on the appearance of your home. Experiment with your flooring design and lay it in less common patterns to create a one-of-a-kind look for your home that stands out from the rest. Here are six patterns to consider when laying your wood flooring.
1. Straight pattern
The basketweave pattern is unique and not commonly found in Singapore. One of the advantages of this pattern is that it can be used in any room, regardless of size, without making the room appear small. This floor pattern can be created by alternating boards of contrasting colours, laid parallel or diagonal to the walls of the room.
If you want to keep things simple, consider using lighter wood species for a less striking look, but if you’re feeling adventurous, try mixing different wood species of different colours to create a dynamic and outstanding wooden floor that will add a lot of character to your home. The basketweave pattern complements the industrial interior design style well.
Wood is timeless, and wood flooring used in homes can easily create beautiful aesthetics, whether you lay the wooden planks in a simple straight pattern or a complicated basketweave pattern; as long as you choose a suitable colour, the wooden grains will do the work of tying your home interior together for you.
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2. Diagonal pattern
A slightly more unique way to lay your wood flooring in Singapore is the diagonal pattern, which involves laying timber or engineered wood planks from corners of the room, angled at 45 degrees. This pattern is also perfect for small rooms as it creates the illusion of depth, making the room look bigger. However, as diagonal patterns require more cutting work, it might be a little pricier to lay your wood flooring this way.
If you want something that isn’t commonly found in Singapore homes but you’re not too comfortable venturing into complicated and difficult-to-match patterns, this laying pattern will be good for you. This will still work well with Scandinavian, Modern and Minimalist interior designs, but you will have to be careful with your choice of wood flooring colour.
Diagonal patterns can be done with timber flooring and engineered wood flooring, but if you wish to lay your vinyl flooring in this pattern, check with your flooring contractor to see if they can cut vinyl flooring tiles to fit the diagonal patterns.
3. Mixed-width pattern
A mixed-width pattern is laid in a manner similar to the straight pattern; from wall to wall, side by side, in a consistent pattern. However, the width of the wooden plank used varies, with some pieces wider than the others.
Due to the width differences in the wooden planks, the wood grains make the wood planks look interesting when they are laid together, while still providing consistency because the wooden planks are laid in a simple pattern.
Suitable for most interior design styles, this is another unique yet safe wood flooring pattern in Singapore you can consider.
4. Herringbone pattern
The herringbone pattern is a classic design that can instantly transform a space and make it look posh, but it isn’t ideal for small spaces as it makes the space look even smaller.
As each plank is pressed against the other in a way that limits its movement, this pattern provides excellent stability. Install it diagonally or parallel to your walls to make interesting patterns. Fun fact! This pattern was first used by the Ancient Romans to build roads.
Depending on the colour of wood you choose, this pattern can work for a variety of interior design styles, choose one that complements the rest of the colours used in your home and this herringbone pattern will definitely work. The herringbone pattern can be achieved using timber, vinyl flooring and engineered wood flooring. Many other flooring types such as laminates will work too.
5. Chevron pattern
You might be thinking that this looks exactly like the herringbone pattern, but you’re wrong. The herringbone pattern uses rectangular wooden planks and is laid at a 90-degree angle, whereas the chevron pattern uses wooden planks cut at an angle and laid at a 45-degree angle.
The chevron pattern is not appropriate for small or narrow spaces because it makes the space appear smaller than it is, but wood flooring laid in this manner can create an elegant atmosphere in large rooms.
6. Basketweave pattern
The basketweave pattern is unique and not commonly found in Singapore. One of the advantages of this pattern is that it can be used in any room, regardless of size, without making the room appear small. This floor pattern can be created by alternating boards of contrasting colours, laid parallel or diagonal to the walls of the room.
If you want to keep things simple, consider using lighter wood species for a less striking look, but if you’re feeling adventurous, try mixing different wood species of different colours to create a dynamic and outstanding wooden floor that will add a lot of character to your home. The basketweave pattern complements the industrial interior design style well.
Wood is timeless, and wood flooring used in homes can easily create beautiful aesthetics, whether you lay the wooden planks in a simple straight pattern or a complicated basketweave pattern; as long as you choose a suitable colour, the wooden grains will do the work of tying your home interior together for you.
Get your home flooring done with Floorrich, one of Singapore’s leading, one-stop flooring providers specialising in a wide range of solid woods, engineered woods, outdoor deckings and vinyl flooring.